If you buy a nonstick pan, you may get spared from having food stick for a while. That's because it's coated with Teflon of some other friction-reducing substance. After a while, if you keep using it, the surface substance will crack and corrode.
By a regular pan and you're still likely to have a few dishes cling to the pan, either because you overcooked them or the nature of the food. If it happens,, you just do a little scrubbing.
I'd stop short of saying that nonstick cookware is the biggest scam around, when all this is around. Still, beware of false promises.
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You can buy non-stick pans that aren't teflon coated but they are a bit more expensive. But what it comes down to is just how much money one can waste buying the teflon ones. We eventually bought a decent non-stick frying pan and it's been fine for years.
The ones that are always recommended by professional cooks are cast iron pans. They're cheap and once they've been used for a while (seasoned) nothing will stick to them and they do everything you'd want a pan to do - including being oven-safe. W.C. Fields's wife probably wielded an iron frying pan.
Yeah, teflon has been a scam that's lasted but you're right it's far from the worst perpetrated upon a gullible public.
I think they keep coming up with new non-stick surfaces that are better than Teflon and that they don't call Teflon but the results are always the same. Yeah, there's probably a way of treating the metal that works better than just coating it. Of course there is. Glad you're satisfied with yours.
Seems strange that cast iron would be good for pans since it tends to look rough and grainy on a wrought iron fence. Different situation, I guess. Funny, Fields was married twice, and his second wife stayed with him until he died. Who knows what his first wife wielded, though?
Many have seen the public as suckers and acted on that belief. Some still do. Results vary.
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